
Nicola Stasi

Nicola Stasi

Nicola Stasi

Nicola Stasi

Nicola Stasi

Nicola Stasi

Nicola Stasi

Nicola Stasi

Nicola Stasi

Nicola Stasi

Nicola Stasi
PIANO-FORTE
Premiere: Nov 21, 2025 - Fonderia, Reggio Emilia
Two bodies move through space like opposing poles: presence and absence, proximity and distance, tension and release.
Their dialogue reveals that every gesture already contains its opposite, and that each polarity exists only through its counterpart. Paradox is not a contradiction, but the very condition of their relationship.
Set to Chopin’s Nocturnes—music suspended between tenderness and anguish—the stage becomes a space where oxymorons take form: silence becomes sound, fragility becomes strength, falling becomes elevation.
The performers do not embody two separate entities, but two sides of the same whole, continuously dividing and coming together again.
The work thus becomes a meditation in movement on the mystery of opposites: what appears irreconcilable reveals itself to be necessary, and in the final embrace comes the recognition that life is the tension that holds all polarities together.
- ChoreographyRoberto Tedesco
- DancersGinevra Gioli, Matheus Alves
- MusicFryderyk Chopin
- Sound designGiuseppe Villarosa
- Lighting & space designDavide Cavandoli
- CostumesSanti Rinciari
- ProductionCOB Compagnia Opus Ballet
- Duration20 minutes